Show Its It's a Vampire i An Angle Angie e Mitigate Millgate Arts Editor D Did id you ever wonder how the ancient myth of vampires pires began One myth stems back centuries centuries centuries cen cen- ago when people had a a fetish for digging up the remains of dead people When they would unearth the decomposing bodies inevitably inevitably inevitably in in- there would be blood around the mouth They would then disturb other bodies around to see if they could find the same results They calculated that those beings had risen from the graves to bite people thus explaining explaining explaining ex ex- the blood on the face After fter they would discover discover discover dis dis- dis- dis cover a body in such a state they would go to the families of the deceased and declare they had found a v vampire m pire 3 11 i j j. l A good assumption with what little knowledge they I had about embalming bodies The true scientific Jj reason for the bloodied mouths was simply that they didn't treat the bodies as we do nowadays When the bodies began to disintegrate disintegrate disintegrate the fluids would spill out of the mouth Pretty disgusting The fact that these bodies were rising from the dead and attacking citizens frightened the population to no ends They devised a plan that would restrain the bodies from being able to rise again If a wooden stake was driven through the body into the coffin the body would be im im- mobilized Thus the wooden stake theory came to be As for the cross and garlic myths I have yet to discover how they evolved nt n r J r t |